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By Jamee A. Pierson Newton Daily News Former Maytag Plant 2 Factory, along with several adjacent properties were purchased for $6.7 million

by Phoenix Investors from Wisconsin. Properties at 801 N. 19th Ave. E., 1716 N. 19th Ave. E., 927 N. 19th Ave. E., and 929 N. 19th Ave. E. were included in the purchase.

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foot property was previously owned by Industrial Real Estate Group of California.

Three businesses occupy part of the — including Advanced Wheels Sales, Trinity Structural Towers and Jacobson Transportation, said Newton Development Corporation Executive Director Frank Liebl. All are expected to retain the space. That leaves approximately 600,000

square feet that the new owner plans to begin remodeling.

“This company will come and refurbish the building and get it all ready for businesses to occupy,” Liebl said.

He said that the previous owners had similar plans but would wait until the space was leased to begin any refurbishing. Phoenix plans to begin work to MAYTAG | 3A

Jamee A. Pierson/Daily News The Former Maytag Plant 2 building and several adjacent properties sold for $6.7 million to Wisconsin based Phoenix Investors. The properties total 1.8 million square feet with 600,000 square feet available for the new owner to start remodeling.

NCSD votes 5-2 to reconfigure into four K-4 elementary schools

Jurors being selected to hear Bruner murder trial

By Jeff Lehr The Joplin Globe

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Bryan Friedman was one of five people to speak against reconfiguration at Monday night’s Newton Community School District meeting. The board voted 5-2 to pursue an option that includes four K-4 elementary schools, beginning in a school year to be determined.

Cook, Friedman lone board members to vote against motion

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News The Newton Community School District is going back to a configuration of neighborhood schools — with the exception of Berg. The NCSD board voted 5-2 at Monday night’s meeting to approve a motion to adopt “Option

No. 2” — as enumerated on literature for recent public forums.

Board member Nat Clark, who made the motion, voted in favor of it, as did board members Andy Elbert, Bill Perrenoud and Travis Padget and board president Sheri Benson.

Board members Donna Cook and Robyn Friedman voted against

it. Clark’s motion also called for the school year for the implementation of the reconfiguration to be determined at a later date.

The reconfiguration won’t take place any earlier than the start of the 2016-17 school year.

The district will have four K-4 elementary schools with about 274 students at Aurora Heights, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson elementaries and reopened Emerson Hough as an elementary school.

JOPLIN, Mo. — Attorneys began selecting a jury Monday in Joplin, Mo. for the trial of Jeffrey Bruner, the accused killer of Missouri Southern State UniverMoore sity assistant football coach a n d Ne w t o n native Derek Moore.

Bruner, 41, is Bruner charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the fatal shooting Nov. 1, 2013, outside the Northstar Stadium 14 theater complex in Joplin.

The trial could start sometime Tuesday. A panel of 59 prospective jurors were questioned by attorneys Monday on knowledge of the case and potentially relevant issues. A second panel of 56 jurors could be called today if attorneys are not able to seat a jury from the first pool.

The 37-year-old Moore was on a date with Bruner’s estranged wife, Dawn Michelle Bruner, when the defendant confronted them as they were leaving a movie together. Testimony at a preliminary hearing last year indicated Jeffrey Bruner learned of the date when his teenage daughter saw a photo of Moore and her mother together that was posted that night on Facebook.

Dawn Bruner testified at the hearing that Jeffrey Bruner stepped into their path as they emerged from the theater complex and told BRUNER | 3A

Attempted murder charges filed following Newton NDC Job Fair is Thursday at DMACC stabbing VOTE | 3A

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For the fourth consecutive spring, the Newton Development Corporation and the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach of Jasper County will team up for a job fair at the Des Moines Area Community College Newton Campus.

This year, the job fair will have a new element — the Goodwill Career Connection Center. The fair, set for Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. in the JOB FAIR | 3A

File Photo Applicants, on the left, speak with representatives of the 55 employers who registered for last year’s Newton Development Corporation Job Fair.

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A Des Moines man is charged with attempted murder after a stabbing in Newton Sunday.

Quentin A. Smith, 25, was staying in the 500 block of East 17th Street South when victims said they awoke to Smith standing over them with a knife in his hand.

After fleeing from the bedroom, a male victim armed himself with a knife but was still injured after he was stabbed in the arm and cut near his collarbone. He required emergency medical treatment, according to a police report.

Smith Smith admitted to police he stabbed the victim, according to the report. He said he believed the victim was stealing his medication.

Following his arrest he was taken to the Jasper County Jail. His initial court appearance is set for 1 p.m. Tuesday.

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DNR to host hunting, trapping public meeting Wednesday in Monroe Newton Daily News The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will host a public meeting over the Iowa Communications Network from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Prairie City-Monroe

High School, 400 E. Highway 163 in Monroe.

The DNR is interested in the public’s thoughts on the hunting and trapping regulations for this fall.

There will be a total of 20 hunting and trapping

meetings across the state at that time. These meetings are part of the process for making rules in state government.

At each meeting DNR staff will facilitate a discussion about what went well

last fall, what didn’t, and what changes hunters and trappers would like to see for this fall.

These discussions along with the data that the wildlife bureau collects on harvest and population numbers

will be used to develop recommendations for any rule changes this fall. Any changes must be approved by the Natural Resource Commission and then go back to the public for further comment before taking effect next fall.

In Brief ICA to host performance tested bull sale Friday

Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Trees at the Newton Arboretum & Botanical Gardens were showing some signs of spring Monday. Operation ReLeaf is a partnership between Alliant Energy, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Forestry Bureau and local partners that allows Alliant residential customers may purchase high-quality landscaping trees for $25 each.

‘ReLeaf’ program offers $25 trees to participants Promotion aimed at getting oxygen into residential neighborhoods

By Jason W. Brooks Newton Daily News In the movie “Frozen,” the character Anna asks us “Do you want to build a snowman?”

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources Forestry Bureau and Alliant Energy want to know “Do you want a tree for $25?”

Operation ReLeaf is a partnership between Alliant Energy, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Forestry Bureau and local partners, offering landscape-quality trees at heavy discounts to Alliant Energy customers will be held at eight locations across Iowa this spring.

Residential tree distributions will be held in Allamakee, Benton, Clarke, Dickinson, Dubuque, Greene, Linn and Muscatine counties this April and May. Alliant Energy’s Operation ReLeaf helps Alliant Energy customers save energy in their homes using trees to create summer shade and winter wind breaks.

Through the program, Alliant residential customers may purchase high-quality landscaping trees for $25 each, on a first-come, first-served basis.

These trees typically retail for between $65 and $125, according to Operation ReLeaf/Trees for Kids Coordinator Laura Wagner.

There are eight events at different sites each spring and fall, and rotate locations to cover the entire Alliant territory. The forestry bureau doesn’t currently have a Jasper County location scheduled for a spring 2015 distribution, as there was a location used in Newton last year, Wagner said.

Alliant Energy customers are welcome to order from another county. There will be a distribution in Grinnell held this fall that Jasper County residents will be encouraged to utilize, Wagner said.

Wagner said ReLeaf is a popular program. Pre-registration is highly recommended and order forms are available on the following website: www. alliantenergy.com/releaf.

For maximum energy efficiency, shade trees should be planted within 30 feet of the east and west. Evergreens should be planted as a windbreak on the north and west of the home.

“Planting a diverse mix of trees on your property and in

your neighborhood will reduce the likelihood of losing a large number of trees to forest health threats,” said Paul Tauke, state forester and chief of the Forestry Bureau.

Tauke said the bureau is encouraging homeowners who do not intend to treat for emerald ash borer to plant a replacement tree within 30 feet of the existing ash tree. Foresters have been working with local partners to create a state tree inventory that will guide future tree planting efforts to keep a healthy mix of tree species.

Operation ReLeaf has 30 species of trees, from which they select eight to 12 species for each event. The species are based on the local tree inventory, and will include shade trees, ornamentals and conifers.

Shade trees are six to eight feet tall, in five- to 10-gallon containers, and conifers are two to three feet tall. The bureau says a few of the advantages of yard trees include a decrease in household heating and cooling costs, increases in property values and a decrease in storm water runoff, which may reduce flooding events.

For more information, contact Laura Wagner with the Iowa DNR at 515-725-8456 or laura.wagner@dnr.iowa.gov.

Contact Jason W. Brooks at 641-792-3121 ext. 6532 or jbrooks@newtondailynews.com

AMES — The Iowa Cattlemen’s Association will host its second performance tested bull sale of the season at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Dunlap Livestock Auction in Dunlap.

To celebrate 30th anniversary, the ICA Bull and Heifer Evaluation Program Committee will host a meal right before the sale. In addition, buyers at the sale will be entered into a drawing for a $500 or $200 credit certificate that can be used on a purchase that night, or a purchase at a future sale date through the 2016 sales.

“Breeders have consigned an excellent set of bulls that carry breed-leading pedigrees and outstanding EPDs (expected progeny differences),” ICA Seedstock Manager Kellie Carolan said.

Thirty-one bulls are on the sale list, including 10 angus, eight charolais, 10 simmental and three simmental composites.

All bulls go through a 112-day test at the Van Meter Feedyard in Guthrie Center.

Breeders of the highest-indexing bull from each breed that qualified for the Dunlap sale will be honored prior to the sale by ICA and Zoetis Animal Health. The terminal index is comprised by average daily gain; weight per day of age; weaning weight EPD; yearling weight EPD; marbling; and retail product numbers.

At a sale held March 16 in Bloomfield, the ICA performance tested bulls sold for an average of $4,175, which is a new average high for that sale.

There will be a final sale of seedstock that has gone through the ICA evaluation program. On May 1, a sale will be held at the Tama Livestock Auction in Tama that features both heifers and bulls.

For more information about the ICA Bull Evaluation Program or to receive a sale catalog, contact the ICA office at 515-296-2266.

The sales catalog and other bull and heifer test information are on the ICA Web site at www.iacattlemen.org.

Brownfield: Monday cash livestock markets report ANKENY — In cattle country, both buyers and sellers are busy taking inventory, bids and asking prices have yet to be established. Last week’s trade came in generally $3 to $4 higher on dressed deals in the North at 260.00 to 261.00, and about $2 higher on live business in the South at mostly $163.00.

Boxed beef cutout values are mixed with the choice up $1.10 at $245.61, and select down $0.45 at $242.83.

Feeder cattle receipts at the Joplin, Missouri Regional Stockyards today totaled 6,000 head. Compared to last week, steer and heifer calves are steady, yearlings $1 to $4 higher. Demand was good and supply was moderate.

Nationally the market is $1.23 lower with a weighted average of $55.67 on a carcass basis. Missouri direct base carcass meat price is a $1 lower from $54 to $55. Midwest hogs on a live basis are steady to $2 lower from $34 to $46. The $46 is for premise ID hogs in Iowa and Wisconsin.

The pork carcass cutout value FOB plant is down $0.59 at $68.62.

For the second consecutive week, commercial pork production exceeded year ago tonnage by 10 percent.

Such a massive increase may be a sign that herd expansion is much larger than previously recognized.

Economists at the University of Missouri estimate that domestic pork demand in February measured 15 percent greater than a year earlier.

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Local News Vote Continued from Page 1A The elementary half of the Berg School Complex will change to grades 5-6 in the plan.

The meeting lasted about three and a half hours, and the reconfiguration discussion lasted more than one hour before Clark made his motion.

Emerson Hough was closed in 2010 after having been a staple of Newton schools since it was built in 1926. Five people signed up to speak at the meeting as reconfiguration was announced as an action item on the agenda late last week. None of the five spoke in favor of reconfiguring.

One of the five who spoke was Bryan Friedman, a city of Newton employee and the husband of school board member Robyn Friedman.

He organized a petition last week against any reconfiguration that involves using the Berg elementary side for grades 5-6, picking up more than 200 signatures, and outlined a plan that called for the current four elementaries to remain in their current grades and Emerson Hough to be used for expanded preschool and a year-round and/or magnet school.

“There are significant issues that people have,” Friedman said. “I really trust teachers as professional educators, and two-thirds of them don’t support reconfiguration.”

Clark said later in the meeting that 200 signatures in a town with a population of 15,000 didn’t seem like many people to him.

Woodrow Wilson special ed-

ucation teacher Carrie Garrett said the board should wait to reconfigure, stating smaller class sizes could be achieved without reconfiguring. Another Woodrow Wilson teacher, Doug Smith, said he declined to sign Friedman’s petition, saying leaving the decision up to the board is his way of letting the process work in its intended way.

There were at least 50 people inside the Emerson Hough conference room, and most departed soon after the vote was taken. Many seemed upset, and some thanked Cook or Robyn Friedman for voting against the plan.

At one point in the discussion, Cook was asking questions about which options would utilize classrooms the best. She asked Callaghan if Option 3, which calls for two K-2 and two grades 3-4 elementaries and 5-6 at the Berg Complex, was possible with Aurora Heights having only 15 total classrooms.

Callaghan shook his head, as if to say “no.”

Callaghan clarified that point after the meeting, saying Option 3 is technically possible, but would involve modifying classroom sizes or building new ones. This was the first time in recent months Callaghan or anyone on the board discussed these classroom quality issues with Option 3 at a regular board meeting.

When asked why Option 3 was not only sent out with public materials, but also discussed at length at forums attended by dozens of area residents, Callaghan said the option was included to retain collaboration possibilities.

Benson said Option 3 was kept in the discussion to “main-

Bruner Continued from Page 1A her: “I can’t believe you’d do this after 21 years. I can’t believe you’d post something on Facebook for your daughter to see and our friends.”

Moore interjected: “She’s moved out, pal.”

According to Dawn Bruner, as she and Moore started walking away, Moore turned back and added that Bruner did not know who he was “messing with.”

She told the court that she then heard four shots, and watched Moore drop to the pavement and her husband begin kicking him in the head.

She crawled to Moore begging her husband to stop until he finally walked away, she testified.

Jeffrey Bruner, a former water plant operator, has been free on $100,000

Maytag Continued from Page 1A make it ready before the space is leased out.

“We are excited to add the Newton Business Center to our growing portfolio of industrial properties, as we continue to carve out a successful niche in re-positioning former single tenant industrial facilities. We look forward to working with the Newton community and its governmental representatives to continue to maximize the potential of this facility,” said Phoenix Investors Managing

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Jason W. Brooks/Daily News Doug Smith was one of five people to speak about reconfiguration at Monday night’s Newton Community School District meeting. The board voted 5-2 to pursue an option that includes four K-4 elementary schools, beginning in a school year to be determined.

tain the integrity of the conversation, and to show the public that we had discussed that as well.”

Reconfiguration had been mulled over since January 2014 by the board and by the School Improvement Advisory Committee. Since introduced, the topic has been the subject of board work sessions, special committee meetings, teacher and parent surveys, open forums and a teacher forum.

It was clearly the most high-profile item on Monday’s agenda, but it was hardly the only complicated topic of the night. Another lengthy discussion regarded the consideration of meeting the intent of Iowa Code 279.68, led by Callaghan and Director of Pre K-8 Educational Services Jim Gilbert.

The district recently announced plans to eliminate its decades-old transitional kindergarten in favor of a six-week

bond since May of last year, although he has been required to live with his parents in Greene County and wear an electronic monitor on his ankle.

He also has been prohibited from having contact with his estranged wife.

Moore, who graduated from Newton High School in 1995, was in his first year at Missouri Southern as an offensive line coach. He was a standout on the offensive line for the Cardinals, earning Second Team AllState honors as a senior. He had a 14-year coaching career that included stops at Ames High School, the University of Northern Iowa, Upper Iowa University, Ellsworth Community College, Iowa Central Community College, St. Cloud State University and Lincoln University.

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Director David Marks. “Recently we sold a large retail property and are in the process of redeploying this equity into industrial properties across the Midwest. In upcoming weeks we will announce a number of additional industrial property acquisitions.”

Liebl said that city leaders plan to meet with the company to hear plans for the property in the first part of April. He said that renovations could take up to 12 to 16 months, adding several local construction jobs in the process.

summer skills program, but discussion at the Feb. 23 board meeting centered largely around alternatives to abandoning transitional kindergarten completely.

The board voted to follow the intent of the law, presumably meaning the district will continue with its plans to replace a 29-year-old transitional kindergarten tradition with the summer program.

Transitional kindergarten teacher Diane Babcock brought materials with her to the meeting that were issued by the Iowa Department of Education last fall, and wondered aloud after the meeting why the fundamentals taught in her transitional class don’t qualify it as part of Iowa Core education.

In other business Monday, the board: • Postponed a budget workshop that was planned to be held after Monday’s meeting,

Job Fair Continued from Page 1A DMACC Conference Center, will be able to utilize the résumé, computer-program, interviewing and other skill development offered by the center, which opened last fall.

“The new part this year is having the Goodwill center around,” said NDC Executive Director Frank Liebl. “That center really adds to this event. They’ve got good resources there.”

There are about 48 businesses signed up, and none of them were charged a fee to participate. There were 55 businesses signed up for last year’s event.

Liebl seemed pleased at how many types of industries are scheduled to be represented at the fair.

“We’ve really got a good diversity,” Liebl said.

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The workshop will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 30 at Hough, at a formal budget hearing will be a part of the board’s regular April 13 meeting. The budget must be certified by April 15.

• Heard from Dave Briden of FRK Architects & Engineers regarding drawings for both the H.A. Lynn Stadium press box and the former Hy-Vee building on First Avenue West that will be used for administration and other purposes.

• Approved a series of resolutions related to re-financing of past general obligation bonds.

• Heard a student representative report from Marisa Modlin of Newton High School, who spoke about the start of tennis practice, NHS inductions and preparations for graduation.

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Keeping Me on My Toes

I love treat day

By Jamee A. Pierson Staff Writer

www.newtondailynews.com | Tuesday | March 24, 2015

When it comes to treat day at school for my daughter, I can go a bit overboard.

I know it would be completely adequate to buy a couple of boxes of snacks and the kids will be happy. The creative, and a bit of a show off, side of me always wants to make it extra special for the kids.

Luck had it that the first day of school was our treat day. We had just moved out of our house because of our pest problem, and I was scrambling a little to get things together. I ended up sending a bag of gummy bears and teddy grahams with a note saying “Have a Beary Good Day!” I also made mini kabobs with grapes and pretzels. I’m sure they tasted OK but it didn’t turn out quite a nice as I would have liked. Pretty good, but not my finest.

For our second treat day, I wanted to ramp it up a bit. It was around Halloween time and I

found a cute idea on Pinterest to make a smiling mouth with two apple slices and marshmallows.

Side note: Pinterest is like crack for crafters like me. I would need multiple lifetimes to accomplish all of my pins, but I love looking at the potential ideas and what other people have done. Without the use of peanut butter because of any allergy problems it might cause, I resorted to toothpicks to keep the mouth together after honey failed me.

To compliment the mouth I was planning, I also planned to create a glove filled with popcorn and candy corn for finger nails. I had the best of intentions but accidentally bought the powdered gloves and didn’t have time to buy a replacement. The popcorn and candy ended up in a regular bag and I’m sure it tasted just the same.

During the third go around I found an idea to make a butterfly using a bag and a clothes pin.

The girls helped out by coloring each clothes pin a different shade of the rainbow and helped pick out the pipe cleaner for the butterfly’s antenna. One side filled with fruit snacks and the other with teddy grahams, we put the pin in the middle to make wings.

The second half of treats that time used an apple slice and grapes to make a little car. I used a toothpick in the front and the back of the slice and attached four grapes for my tiny vehicle.

On my third attempt at treats this year, I finally had two snacks go as planned.

Just as I write this, my daughter is probably enjoying her treats from today. I’m not sure why this idea stuck in my head so much, but with spring, and Easter well on its way, I decided to once again theme it out. I bought Rice Krispies to make a “nest” with M&M eggs and a Peep to sit on top. My daughter lent a hand with the Rice Krispie treats, mainly as a

taste tester. She also helped place a Peep on top of each nest.

For something a bit healthier, I went with a fruit kabob consisting of apples, grapes, bananas and strawberries. Because of the fresh produce, I left the kabobs until morning. As it usually goes, things were a bit hectic, and we were rushing out of the door to get to school on time with our treats, share bag and everything I need for work.

I haven’t been able to go to my daughter’s classroom to watch them enjoy any of the treats I send along. Her teacher usually gives me a thumbs up for my efforts, and I hope the kids get a kick out of their special treat. I’m not sure if another treat day will come up before school is over, but for a holiday snack, my daughter chose Easter and I already have big plans in mind!

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House majority stalls on school funding This week, I’d like to discuss a variety of critical issues with you — strengthening education, protecting the second amendment while ensuring public safety and an effort to create local jobs.

At the Capitol, instead of resolving the school funding crisis, the House By Dan Kelley Iowa Majority party wasted last week Representative attacking Iowa teachers by blaming them for poorly funded schools. It’s really a distraction they are using so Iowans won’t pay attention to their plan to ignore and underfund our K-12 schools.

School officials, parents and students have been telling us the majority party’s plan to underfund our schools means larger class sizes, fewer course offerings, and cuts to enriching programs like music, sports, mock trial, debate, art and PE. We know Iowa is already falling far below the national average in per pupil spending.

We also know Iowa has some of the best teachers in the nation who work hard every day building our skilled workforce and helping our kids. The majority party needs to bring a bill to the floor which properly funds our schools and quit wasting time like they did this

week. Our kids can’t wait any longer.

Also, as a supporter of the 2nd amendment, I want to protect rights and public safety.

The House recently considered a bill containing several ideas I support — including protecting privacy of gun ownership, giving more tools to law enforcement officials to stop violence and making gun safety training more accessible. However, I did not support the bill on the final vote because portions of it would allow kids 5 years old and younger to handle a pistol or revolver while legalizing lethal firearms on school grounds. Also, the bill eliminates requirements for background checks prior to purchase, possession and carrying of a handgun in many circumstances.

I heard from a number of constituents concerning this bill. I support what you call for, moderate, reasonable policies.

Clearly, Iowans deserve better than this proposal.

Last, I want you to know about a new effort in Jasper County to create local jobs. I’m pleased that through a joint effort with Iowa State University, Jasper County now has an office dedicated to helping build small businesses. Mid Iowa Small Business Development Center provides no cost counseling and affordable training to individuals starting a business, expanding an ex-

isting business, or wanting to transition their business to a new owner.

Last year, Mid Iowa Small Business Development Center, counseled 305 clients and helped 19 businesses to start.

This created 160 jobs. Christina Moffatt is the small business advisor who now serves Jasper County. If you are interested in starting a small business or growing your existing business, contact Christina at 515-331-8954 or cmoffatt@ iastate.edu. Also, I’d be happy to connect you with this great opportunity.

I appreciate the chance to write this editorial column every week. Thanks for reading.

Also, I select articles concerning a variety of topics for my weekly email newsletter. I believe it’s important for you to know what is going on at the Capitol. My email newsletter is a Capitol news update, not an editorial like this weekly column. If you already receive my emails every week, thanks for spending time with them.

If you aren’t currently receiving a weekly newsletter email, I’d love to add you to my list.

Please send your contact information to me using my official state legislative email address, dan.kelley@legis.iowa.gov.

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Republican senators are trying to strengthen America’s economy by exporting the ignorance that got them elected.

I grew up in the America that By Marc Dion exported cars, clothes, steel, food and various other consumables. Now, all that stuff comes from somewhere else. So we tried exporting democracy but no one wanted it, mostly because the salesmen kept killing the potential customers. We exported our soldiers, then we took ‘em back, then we exported ‘em, then we took ‘em back. Iran. Somalia. Afghanistan. But the army’s worn pretty thin right now, so there’s not much more money in that business.

Ah, but Republicans, the party of wages down/profits up, have now taken to scrawling letters to other governments, exporting the blind dumbassery that gets them elected down home.

Unfortunately, there’s no market for Republican principles in the Mideast. Know why?

Because much of the Mideast, including all turf held by ISIS, is ALREADY run on Republican principles.

Check it out.

Like Republicans, hardline Jihadists believe that the answer to every question is found in one book. They believe all other religions are wrong and should be banned.

Prayer in the schools?

ISIS LOVES prayer in the schools. You pray in their schools, you pray in their mosques, you pray just before you pull the pin on your suicide vest.

Republicans also like the “pray until you’re 18, and then go get killed in a holy war” doctrine.

Like Republicans, ji-

hadists believe everyone should own an automatic weapon. Watch the evening news and all you see are Muslim fanatics waving guns. A religious event in those countries sounds like New Year’s Eve in a bad Houston neighborhood.

Women’s rights?

We’ve seen how the Taliban feels about that “feminazi” stuff. They like it about as much as Republicans like equal pay for equal work.

Civil rights for despised minorities? You think the jihadi boys like that weak sister stuff?

Hell no! They kill Christians. They kill Jews. That’s an advanced version of the Republican theory that voting rights should be rolled back in this country.

Fundamental Islam seeks to turn back time, to reset the whole world to some more primitive days when women didn’t get educated, when rape wasn’t a crime, when you stoned people to death for minor infractions of religious law, when there was no difference between the leader on earth and God in heaven.

Republicanism seeks to turn America back to the day when you took your Bible to a lynching, when the boss paid what he wanted to pay and you better shut your mouth, when a woman with a waitressing career had gone as far as she could go and any blustering, blundering senator could hold office by loving Jesus in heaven and hating his black neighbors down the road.

Too bad, Republican senators. You thought you’d found a new market for your backward, blind, duplicitous hatred. Alas, it turns out the Mideast has their own brand and, while it might have a different label, it tastes just the same.

Marc Munroe Dion is a nationally syndicated columnist. Dion’s latest book, a collection of his best 2014 columns, is available for Nook and Kindle.

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Obituaries David Pitz March 18, 2015 David Anthony Pitz, the son of Wilbert Raphael and Marie Justine (Recker) Pitz, was born Oct. 7, 1937, in Epworth, Iowa. He graduated from Epworth Senior High School with the class of 1956 then went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in teaching from the Iowa State Teacher’s College.

In 1960, Dave married Jane Andrews. To this union four children were born, Daniel, Deanne, Donna and Debra. Dave was a Government and Sociology teacher. He re-

tired from the Johnston High School in 1995, after 35 years in Education.

On June 27, 1992, Dave was united in marriage with Bonita Anne Malecek Sankot in Des Moines. Dave was very witty and seemed to have a pun ready for any occasion.

He enjoyed traveling, baseball, the Cubs, biking, and coaching. Dave attended every family event in Iowa and many out of state. He was a member of the Ankeny Jaycees, Iowa State Education Association, Newton Noon Kiwanis; Jasper County League of Women Voters, OPEN Board, and Alcoholics Anonymous.

Dave had recently celebrated 33 years of sobriety.

Dave died on

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

He was 77 years old.

Dave was preceded in death by his parents; a son-in-law, Tim Bazis; a brother, Billy Pitz and a sister in infancy, Betty Jo Pitz and his faithful companion, Fritz.

Those left to honor Dave’s memory include his wife Bonnie, children: Dan Pitz of West Des Moines, Deanne Bazis of Boone, Donna ( Jeff ) Trott of Urbandale, Debi (Todd) Michel of Johnston; his ten grandchildren; his step children, Dennis ( Julayne) Sankot, Betsy Schwenn, Richard (Carla) Sankot; his eight step grandchildren; his brothers and sisters, Bob (Dorothy) Pitz of Epworth, Ron ( Janet) Pitz of Peosta,

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LuAnn (Bill) Spiegel of Epworth, Steve ( Judy) Pitz of Cascade, Karen Wendt of Manchester, Mary (Mark) Brown of Charlottesville, Va., Deby ( Jeff ) Oberfoell of Herst, Texas; his many nieces and nephews.

Services for Dave will be 10 a.m., Saturday, March 28 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Newton. The family will greet friends Friday evening, March 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Pence Reese Funeral Home. A Public Vigil service will begin at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be designated to the family, the Newton Salvation Army, OPEN-Newton or Jasper County League of Women Voters.

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Winona Sill, 81, of Newton, died Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at Garden View in Park Centre. Services are pending at Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton.

Joseph Gobb, 73, of Des Moines, died Monday, March 23, 2015 at the Bright Kavanagh House in Des Moines. Services are pending at Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at noon Wednesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• Newton Noon Kiwanis will meet at noon Wednesday at St. Stephens 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton. The Newton Noon Kiwanis will meet for lunch and a program titled “Newton Daily News” by Abigail Pelzer. Anyone interested in the program or in learning more about Kiwanis is welcome to be a guest for lunch. For information or to make a reservation for lunch, call Margie Criswell at 641-521-9482. Visit www.newtonkiwanis.org to learn more about the service club.

• Approval Addiction women’s study will meet at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at Hephzibah House 721 E. Fourth St. S. in Newton.

• Alcoholics Anonymous Beginner’s Support Group will meet at 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 223 E. Fourth St. N. in Newton.

• CAA Youth Sculpture Project will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at in Newton. Please join the Centre for Arts & Artists, 501 W. Third St. N., to help design and create a sculpture for the CAA grounds. There are no fees to attend. Enter on the West side of the CAA building. For more information, email Karen at king50208@hotmail. com king50208@hotmail.com or call Linda at 641-521-3554. These meetings will continue on Wednesday evenings • Neighborhood Meeting will meet at 6 p.m.

Wednesday at 203 E. Jefferson St., Prairie City, Iowa 50228 in Prairie City. SRF Sponsored Project\/School Infrastructure Improvements • Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Masonic Temple in Prairie City.

• Preschool Story Time will meet at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Newton Public Library 100 N. Third Ave. W. in Newton. Thursday, March 26 Storytime for preschoolers, ages 3 to 5, siblings are welcome. Storytime includes books, music, fingerplays and a simple craft. For more information, call Youth Services Librarian Phyllis Peter at 641-792-4108.

• Total Forgiveness women’s study will meet at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at Hephzibah House 721 E. Fourth St. S. in Newton.

• Above + Beyond Cancer will meet at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Park Centre Garden Room in Newton. Dr. Richard Demming, Medical Director of Mercy Cancer Center in Des Moines and Founder and Chairman of Above + Beyond Cancer.

Registration will begin at 1:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. For more information or to secure a reservation, call 641-791-5000.

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Police Blotter eling with no headlights on and make contact with the curb. After pulling him over, officers noticed he had blood-shot and watery eyes and smell of alcohol. Schuler admitted to consuming alcohol and had a BAC of .249.

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vehicle, which was running.

He admitted that he had relapsed after being clean for several months and had used meth earlier that day. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

• Shane M. Chesshire, 40, of Newton, was arrested on a Jasper County warrant and

charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after authorities pulled him over in the 900 block of West 12th Street South at 11:32 p.m.

March 17. After being placed under arrest, officers found a glass meth pipe in a bag in the vehicle. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.

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Mom with breast cancer does not need shielding from life DEAR ABBY: My wife has stage 4 breast cancer. She is only 51, and our most optimistic prognosis is three to four more years. Our children, 15 and 16, understand her disease, but don’t really have a sense of how much longer we all have together.

Recently we went out to dinner, and the kids started talking about my retirement plans and their college plans. Later that night, my wife told me how sad it was hearing the kids talk about things she knows she will never see.

I have been debating whether I should have a talk with the kids and perhaps suggest they avoid subjects that make their mother sad. What do you think? — NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE DEAR NOT TALKING: Before talking to your children, I think you should talk to your wife. Although your instinct is to protect her, I don’t think you can. Sadness in her situation is normal. I’m sure if you were to ask her if she’d prefer the kids censor their remarks in front of her, she would tell you she wants to hear everything she can about what they are thinking.

When people have a terminal illness, they have a right to be sad when contemplating the things they will be missing — in your wife’s case it will be seeing her children get married, her grandchildren and more. Let your children express themselves fully with their mother, and if she’s having a bad/sad day, listen and let her unburden herself.

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DEAR ABBY: As a gift, my boyfriend, “Seth,” gave me a Chihuahua puppy. I like dogs, but have never expressed a desire to have one. In fact, I have repeatedly mentioned my dislike for small dogs and that I wouldn’t have a dog due to my travel schedule for work.

I’d have to pay for food, veterinary care, toys, boarding, etc., and the dog would

be alone in my apartment all day while I’m at the office.

Seth still chose to give me one. When I refused his gift, he yelled and left. My friends think I was rude, and that Seth was sweet for buying me a puppy. I tried explaining to them, but they were sarcastic and mean about my decision not to accept the dog.

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened with Seth. For my birthday he bought me a smartphone, signed me up for a two-year contract and expected me to pay the monthly bill. I refused that, too. Am I wrong?

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Because you told him clearly that you dislike small dogs, he should not have forced one on you. In fact, he shouldn’t have given you any living, breathing dependent creature without first having made sure it would be welcomed. You did the right thing — the humane thing — in not accepting the animal.

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Nonprofit gifted with home from Wells Fargo HAWARDEN — Wells Fargo has donated a home to the Center for Financial Education, a nonprofit ministry that provides counseling services free of charge in northwest Iowa. Wells Fargo donated the house mortgage-free in October.

Through its Community and Urban Stabilization Program, which was started last year, Wells Fargo has donated more than 450 properties to nonprofit and faith-based organizations.

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Snow dampens efforts to jumpstart yard cleanup MASON CITY — An overnight snowstorm along northern Iowa has dampened Mason City’s efforts to get a jumpstart on spring cleaning. City officials had rescheduled the town’s first yard waste collection day of the year for Monday because of a recent bout of pleasant weather. A snowstorm that moved across the upper Midwest Sunday night into early Monday morning and dumped about two inches of heavy snow.

COUNCIL BLUFFS — A Council Bluffs man is currently in first place in a contest for the chance to spend two weeks in Norway as a photographer.

Voters have put 35-year-old Jeremiah Knutson in first place on DreamJobbing. com, which works with companies to place people from across the United States in dream jobs. Past positions include a week as a producer for CBS television and backup singer for Michael Bolton. The winner of the competition will travel Norway.

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GOOSE LAKE — Authorities say one man has been killed after his motorcycle veered off the road and pinned him underneath in eastern Iowa.

The Clinton County Sheriff ’s Office says 51-year-old Robert Witt, of Preston, Iowa, was traveling southbound along 362nd Avenue Saturday when his motorcycle went off the road about two miles north of Goose Lake. Witt was pronounced dead at the scene.

DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad took the day off Monday to recover from a cold. Branstad’s spokesman Jimmy Centers said the governor caught a cold while on vacation last week. All his public events were canceled Monday so Branstad could take the day off to rest. Branstad took several days off in January to recover from a case of flu and dehydration that sent him to a hospital.

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Trial postponed for Colfax man who pulled handgun during arrest

By Mike Mendenhall Jasper County Tribune A continuance was filed Monday in the case of a Colfax man who pulled a gun during a December confrontation with Colfax police officers outside his downtown apartment.

Matthew S. Holett, 23, is charged with carrying weapHolett ons, an aggravated misdemeanor, and interference with official acts, a Class D felony, after pulling a .22 cal. handgun while being detained at 12:36 a.m. Dec. 13 by Colfax police in the 10 block of East Howard Street.

Holett was scheduled to appear in Jasper County District Court Monday for a pretrial conference. Online court records indicate Iowa 5th District Court Judge Brad McCall filed the continuance, rescheduling the 23-year-old’s court date for April 6 and his jury trial for May 20.

Dashcam footage obtained from the incident shows Holett pulling a pistol from his waistband during the arrest. Holett began yelling at police after he arrived on scene during the arrest of another man seen in the video urinating on the side of a building.

The Colfax officer approached Holett — who appeared agitated — and informed the subject he was arresting his friend for pubic urination. The officer then asked Holett if he had been drink-

ing. The 23-year-old offered to perform a breathalyzer for the officer. The report indicates Holett appeared intoxicated at the scene. As Holett began to walk toward the police SUV, the subject quickly turned to enter his apartment. The officer then attempted to handcuff Holett.

During the struggle, Holett pulled a handgun from his waistband, appearing to point the weapon at the officer around his back and between his legs.

Holett managed to open his apartment door, he ran inside and officers pursued. The report indicates police used a Taser to subdue Holett as he allegedly attempted to discard the weapon between the wall of the apartment and a refrigerator.

Holett called out to a wom-

an who was apparently in the apartment at the time of the arrest. Holett yelled for her to lock the apartment door and not let anyone inside.

Officers began walking Holett from the apartment after he was cuffed when he once again began to resist, falling to the ground. The subject then attempted to kick officers while on his back. One officer maced Holett, causing the subject to repeat “I can’t breathe.”

Law enforcement had Colfax ambulance dispatched to the scene, and Holett was transported to Skiff Medical Center in Newton, before he was taken to the Jasper County Jail. He was released on $5,000 bond shortly after his arrest.

During the arrest, Holett dropped a marijuana smoking pipe and gun magazine on the ground, according to the po-

lice report. Officers reported the hammer of the gun was cocked back, did not contain a magazine and did not have a bullet in the chamber when recovered. Holett claimed several times during the incident he did not have a gun.

The incident was made public during the Jan. 12 Colfax City Council meeting when Colfax Police Chief Andy Summy briefed council member on monthly police activity.

Holett is also facing drug charges from the Colfax Police Department stemming from a June 24 incident. Online court records show the April 6 pretrial conference will include discussion of his June 2014 controlled substance possession.

Contact Mike Mendenhall at mmendenhall@jaspercountrytribune.com

Brother, former president to attend Jeb Bush fundraiser The Associated Press DES MOINES — Former President George W. Bush is scheduled to attend a Lone Star-studded fundraiser in Dallas Wednesday for his brother Jeb Bush.

The former president and former first lady Laura Bush are the special guests named to appear with the former Florida governor, who is expected to announce in the coming months his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Texas Republicans said Monday.

It would be the first

time former President Bush — a former Texas governor and current resident of Dallas — has attended a fundraiser for his brother, who has been aggressively raising money for his political action committee from some of the GOP’s top donors for three months. It also comes as Jeb Bush nears the end of what is expected to be a successful fundraising quarter for the PAC. The guest list also includes big names in Texas and national GOP fundraising circles, including Dallas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, who is chair-

man of BP Capital Management, and real estate and homebuilding magnate Woody Hunt of El Paso.

Texas is among the nation’s top Republican fundraising venues, along with markets in California and Florida, as well as New York and Chicago. Several likely Republican candidates are claiming a stake in Texas, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who announced his candidacy Monday, and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is expected to announce his second bid for the nomination.

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Jet crashes in Alps with 150 aboard; no survivors expected The Associated Press PARIS — A passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed Tuesday in the French Alps as it flew from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, authorities said. As search-andrescue teams struggled to get to the remote, snow-covered region, France’s president warned that no survivors were expected.

The crash site was at Meolans-Revels, near the popular ski resort of Pra Loup, according to Eric Ciotti, the head of the regional council in southeast France. The site is 700 kilometers (430 miles) south-southeast of Paris. But with mountains all around and few clear trails into the area, access to the crash site was expected to take time.

The Germanwings Airbus A320 plane left Barcelona at 9:55 a.m., sent out a distress signal at 10:45 a.m., then crashed in a mountain-

ous zone in France at an elevation of about 2,000 meters (6,550 feet), said Pierre-Henry Brandet, the French Interior Ministry spokesman.

Brandet told BFM television he expected “an extremely long and extremely difficult” search-and-rescue operation because of the area’s remoteness.

Germanwings official Oliver Wagner told German television that Germanwings flight 9525 carried 144 passengers and 6 crew members. He did not give a breakdown of nationalities on board.

Germanwings is a lower-cost unit of Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline. It has been operating since 2002, part of traditional national carriers’ response from rising European budget carriers.

It serves mainly European destinations.

The Germanwings logo, normally maroon and yellow, was blacked

out on its Twitter feed.

Family members arriving at Duesseldorf airport were taken from the main terminal to a nearby building, which airport employees partially covered with sheets for privacy. At the Barcelona airport, police escorted several crying women to a part of the airport away from the media. One woman held a jacket over the head of another woman, who was sobbing.

The owner of a campground near the crash site, Pierre Polizzi, said he heard the plane making curious noises shortly before it crashed.

“At 11:30, I heard a series of loud noises in the air. There are often fighter jets flying over, so I thought it sounded just like that. I looked outside, but I couldn’t see any fighter planes,” he told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “The noise I heard was long — like eight seconds — as if the

Obama, Afghan leader to finalize plan for US troop pullout The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomes Afghanistan’s new president to the Oval Office on Tuesday with fraught questions staring them in the face: Will the U.S. slow its departure from Afghanistan — and for how long?

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani represents Obama’s last, best hope to make good on his promise to end America’s longest war by the time he leaves office, keeping only a 1,000 or so troops at the embassy to coordinate security. Ghani predecessor Hamid Karzai’s relationship with the White House was increasingly dysfunctional, and if the dealings with Ghani don’t turn out better, Obama risks leaving Afghanistan still vulnerable to the kinds of violent extremist groups that operated with impunity until 14 years ago, when the U.S. attacked after 9/11.

Ghani comes to the White House aiming to prove he’s a reliable partner worthy of U.S. support, despite his fractured government and a litany of problems still rampant in Afghanistan’s military — illiteracy, drug abuse and desertions, to name a few.

Most critically, Ghani is asking the president to keep more U.S. troops in his country for longer, as Afghan forces brace for a tough spring fighting season and contend with Islamic State fighters looking to recruit on their soil.

“We do not now ask what the United States can do for us,” Ghani said, invoking John F. Ken-

nedy as he opened his U.S. visit on Monday. “We want to say what Afghanistan will do for itself and for the world.”

In the run-up to their meeting, the prospect of the U.S. slowing its exit has become almost a foregone conclusion, with officials predicting the U.S. will likely leave many of the 9,800 American troops there now long into next year. The original plan was to cut to 5,500 by the end of 2015.

Also at stake: the future of U.S. bases in Jalalabad and in Kandahar, where the Taliban had their capital until 2001. U.S. military leaders have seemed receptive to Ghani’s request that those bases stay open as long as possible.

Obama and Ghani were to discuss the pace of withdrawal on Tuesday during meetings and a working lunch at the White House — the centerpiece of Ghani’s highly anticipated visit to Washington. In the days before the visit, White House officials suggested that Obama was likely to announce his troop decision when he and Ghani take questions from reporters in the East Room Tuesday afternoon.

Underscoring the fragile security situation, gunmen killed at least 13 people overnight during a midnight assault on a highway near Taliban-held territory in eastern Afghanistan, although no group immediately claimed responsibility. And elsewhere in Afghanistan, a suspected U.S. drone strike near the border with Pakistan killed at least nine militants from a Pakistani terror group, intelligence officials in Pakistan said.

AP Photo Rescue helicopters park in Seyne les Alpes, French Alps, Tuesday. A passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed Tuesday in the French Alps as it flew from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, authorities said. As search-and-rescue teams struggled to get to the remote, snow-covered region, France’s president warned that no survivors were expected.

plane was going more slowly than a military plane. There was another long noise after about 30 seconds.”

Polizzi said the plane crashed about 5-to-8 kilometers (3-to11 miles) from his place, which is closed for the season.

“It’s going to be very difficult to get there.

The mountain is snowy and very hostile,” he said.

The municipal sports hall of Seyne-les-Alpes, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Val d’Allos ski resort, was being set up to take bodies or survivors from the crash, according to Sandrine Julien of the town hall.

There was no obvious weather reason Tuesday why the plane went down. Capt. Benoit Zeisser of the nearby Digne-le-Bains police said there were some

clouds but the cloud ceiling was not low.

In addition, the safest part of a flight is when the plane is at cruising elevation. Just 10 percent of fatal accidents occur at that point, according to a safety analysis by Boeing. In contrast, takeoff and the initial climb accounts for 14 percent of crashes and final approach and landing accounts for 47 percent.

Angelina Jolie undergoes further preventive surgery The Associated Press LONDON — Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed Tuesday that she has undergone more preventive surgery, having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in hopes of reducing her risk of cancer.

Writing in The New York Times, the filmmaker and philanthropist said a recent blood test showed a possible early sign of cancer. The news was a blow to the star who had already had a double mastectomy.

“I went through what I imagine thousands of other

women have felt,” she wrote.

“I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn’t live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.”

Jolie, 39, revealed two years ago that she carries a defective breast cancer gene that puts her at high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.

Her mother died of ovarian cancer, and her maternal grandmother also had ovarian cancer — strong evidence of an inherited, genetic risk that led the actress to have her healthy breasts removed to try to avoid the same fate.

Only a small percentage of women inherit the same faulty gene, known as BRCA1 — the name stands for breast cancer susceptibility gene. These mutations are most commonly found in women of Eastern European Jewish descent, though other groups, including the Norwegian, Dutch and Icelandic, also have slightly higher rates of these mutations.

The average woman has a 12 percent risk of developing breast cancer sometime during her life. Women who have inherited a faulty BRCA gene are about five times more likely to get breast cancer.

US counterterrorism strategy in Yemen collapses amid chaos The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Once hailed by President Barack Obama as a model for fighting extremism, the U.S. counterterrorism strategy in Yemen has all but collapsed as the country descends into chaos, according to U.S. and Yemeni officials.

Operations against militants have been scaled back dramatically amid the fall of the American-backed government and the evacuation of U.S. personnel. What had been consistent pressure on Yemen’s dangerous al-Qaida affiliate has been relieved, the

officials say, and a safe haven exists for the development of an offshoot of the Islamic State group.

It’s a swift and striking transformation for an anti-terror campaign Obama heralded just six months ago as the template for efforts to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The shift has left Obama open to criticism that he failed to anticipate the risks of a light footprint strategy that aims to put fragile governments and beleaguered local security forces, not the U.S. military, at the forefront.

Barbara Bodine, a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen,

said even the most optimistic regional experts did not share Obama’s view that the Yemen campaign was a model of success.

“It was being defined in terms of what we were doing to develop local forces and use drones and counter the immediate and real security threat,” said Bodine, now director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.

“But what we hadn’t done, certainly had not done visibly enough, was get at the economic and governance issues that were driving the problem.”

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Submitted photo Members of Newton’s YMCA Penguin Swim Team competed in the 2015 Iowa YMCA State Championship Swim Meet March 7-8 in Marshalltown. Those competing at the state were, left to right, front row, Lauren Van Manen, Lauryn Garrett, Alyssa Beerends and Jadin Brooks; middle row, Jaden Dydell, Allie Stout, MaKenna Brooks, Alexa Bell, Chloe Kibbee and Adam Hunter; back row, Alexis Stout, Alex Inskeep, Mason Lee, Ben Peterson, Deklan Lewis, Erika Van Sickle and Courtney Dawson.

Newton YMCA Penguins swim at state meet

By Jocelyn Sheets Newton Daily News Newton’s YMCA Penguin Swim Team had 17 swimmers qualify for the 2015 Iowa YMCA State Swim Meet on March 7-8 in Marshalltown. Newton had seven top-10 finishes in the meet.

The top individual performance was turned in the Lauryn Garrett in the girls’ 8-and-under division.

Garrett places second in the 100-yard individual medley in 1 minute, 30.22 seconds, and was second in the 50yard breaststroke in 46.23 seconds.

She was fourth in the 25-yard breaststroke in 21.95 seconds.

Garrett combined with Alyssa Beerends, Lauren Van Manen and

Montana Mike’s Bracket Challenge

Smith leads bracket challenge contest Newton Daily News With the first through third rounds complete of the NCAA tournament, Scott Smith of Newton is in the lead for the Montana Mike’s Bracket Challenge with 98 points.

There is a three-way tie for second place with 94 points. Aaron Groves and Joey Kapayou from Newton and Terri Kauer of Baxter.

There is a two-way tie for second place with 92 points. Tricia Groves and Roger Daniels of Newton.

An updated bracket is featured on page 3B of Tuesday’s Newton Daily News.

Jadin Brooks to take sixth in the 8-and-under 100 medley relay in 1:26.38. The same foursome placed 13th in the 100 freestyle relay.

Jaden Dydell placed sixth in two events in the boys’ 11-12 division.

He was sixth in the 50 breaststroke in 35.89 seconds and sixth n the 100 breaststroke in 1:22.68. Dydell finished ninth in the 50 freestyle race in 28.27 seconds.

Thirteen of the Penguin swimmers qualified for two regional swim meets — the YMCA North Central Regional and the Minnesota Youth Athletic Services Midwest Regional.

The North Central Regional was over the weekend and the MYAS regional meet is this weekend. Both meets are held at the University of Minne-

sota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, Minn.

Qualified for both meets are Jadin Brooks, Coutney Dawson, Jaden Dydell, Lauryn Garrett, Brandon Miller, Ben Peterson, Sarah Prendergast, Alexis Stout and Erika Van Sickle. Qualified for only to the YMCA regional are MaKenna Brooks, Maggie Garrett and Chloe Kibbee. Going only to the MYAS regional is Alyssa Beerends.

The YMCA Penguin Swim Team is coached by Shaphen Brooks, Hannah Scotton and Rachel Prendergast.

Other state meet results were: Girls’ 12-21 division 100 butterfly-17. Alexis Stout, 1:09.03 Boys’ 12-21 division 100 butterfly-21. Ben Peterson, 1:13.05 200 backstroke-14. Deklan Lewis, 2:35.07

Baseball: The Big Shift Infields spin in response to data explosion COPLAY, Pa. (AP) — Twentysomethings sit in rows inside a two-story, red brick building in an Allentown suburb that Norman Rockwell could have painted. Using a keyboard and a pair of screens each, the video scouts note every one of the 700,000 pitches and 130,000 batted balls in the major leagues each year, night after night after night.

Hundreds and thousands of miles away, infielders shift from left to right and back on big league diamonds, swaying like metronomes marking time in a Beethoven symphony, moving to locations personalized for each batter.

All this re-aligning is designed to drive hitters, well, batty. And it’s working: The bigleague batting average is at its lowest level since 1972.

Players no longer are told to do everything the way Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth and Christy Mathewson did. The Big Shift is on, and long-held beliefs have burst in this post-steroids era, where hits and runs have become as precious as rare gems.

“This is something that has changed in baseball over the last two, three years, and it’s completely different,” said Jed Lowrie, the shortstop of the Houston Astros, easily the shiftiest team in the major leagues last year.

Baseball Info Solutions, a high-tech company founded in 2002, provided data to 21 of the

30 major league clubs last year, each craving an advantage. Digital innovations are touted with the intensity of agents trumpeting players.

No shift is too radical, no idea too goofy to try if the microcircuits propose it. They don’t always work, but the odds of success precipitated swift adoption.

“It may look a little bit funny for people that have been watching baseball through the decades,” said Scott Spatt, a BIS research and development analyst.

Spatt Last April, the St. Louis Cardinals put all four infielders on the right side for the New York Mets’ Lucas Duda when he got to two strikes. He hit a two-hopper to second baseman Mark Ellis — who was perfectly positioned about 15 feet into right field and threw to first for the easy out. Duda estimates shifts sliced his average about 20 points last season.

Shifts may have even changed the World Series. Data from BIS helped persuade San Francisco to position Juan Perez near the left-field line and shallow in Game 7 against Kansas City’s Nori Aoki, a left-handed spray BASEBALL | 8B

Girls’ 13-14 division 200 freestyle-44. Alex Inskeep, 2:26.83 50 freestyle-16. Alexis Stout, 27.22 100 freestyle-17. Stout, 1L01.30 Boys’ 13-14 division 100 freestyle-35. Ben Peterson, 1:01.98 100 backstroke-21. Peterson, 1:10.67 200 medley relay-15. Newton (Deklan Lewis, Adam Hunter, Mason Lee, Peterson), 2:11.38 200 freestyle relay-16. Newton (Lewis, Hunter, Lee, Peterson), 1:54.12 Girls’ 11-12 division 200 freestyle-13. Erika Van Sickle, 2:22.87, 34. Courtney Dawson, 2:33.07 50 backstroke-19. Chloe Kibbee, 35.38 200 freestyle relay-14. Newton (Allie Stout, MaKenna Brooks, Alexa Bell, Kibbee), 2:01.49 Girls 8-and-under division 25 freestyle-24. Jadin Brooks, 18.40 50 freestyle-15. Brooks, 40.18, 17. Alyssa Beerends, 40.91

Contact Jocelyn Sheets at 641-792-3121 ext. 6535 or jsheets@newtondailynews.com

This & That

Spring seasons are here, even if the weather doesn’t show it The spring sports season in the area is about to ramp up. Even though the weather outside lately has shown us otherwise.

All five area schools have competed in some indoor track meets.

But the biggest part of the season begins next week when those same track and field teams start the outdoor By Troy Hyde season. And Newton Daily then golf, soc- News Sports cer and tennis Writer get going in April.

The spring season is always tricky. Every athletic event is outside so rain plays a large factor in what gets played and what doesn’t.

I don’t know about you, but I am ready for the weather to turn warm for good.

I got out to a few area practices on Monday and one particular golfer muttered to a teammate, “I thought golf was a warm-weather sport.”

When I got into my SUV a few minutes later, the temperature was 39 degrees outside.

I wouldn’t necessarily want to practice in those conditions either.

After fighting through mono a few weeks ago, I am

just now starting to get my complete strength back.

I have run five half marathons in my life and a pair of 10Ks but right now, I don’t have the energy to run more than a few miles. My wife said it’s probably because of the mono still, but I can’t wait until I can get outside and go on long runs again.

The weather has to change soon. And I can’t wait.

March Madness got off to a crazy start last Thursday with Iowa State and Baylor going down in the first few hours.

After the first weekend, the brackets are left without one No. 1 seed (Villa-nova), two No. 2 seeds (Virginia and Kansas), two No. 3 seeds (ISU and Baylor) and two No. 4 seeds (Georgetown and Maryland).

And unfortunately, all three state of Iowa schools have already been eliminated.

Iowa State and Northern Iowa were both trendy picks to make deep runs but only the Panthers got into the win column.

UNI then lost Sunday against Louisville.

Iowa State could get the last laugh though. The roster the Cyclones will have next year should put them in at least the top 15, and probably the top 10, in all preseason polls.

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March 19-20 1 Kentucky 16 MANH/HAMP 8 Cincinnati

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Mar 19, 3:40 PM

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TECHNICS INLINE turntable $45. Phillips flat screen LCD TV with all hook-ups and remote. $50.

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The Gemini moon is like a talk show. New people to chat up and learn from arrive on the scene in succession, with each visit lasting just long enough for us to get a taste of what they are about. The overall feeling is one of friendliness, levity and breezy information.

Share, move on, and share again.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 24). You know what you’re working toward, and you’ll be tenacious. You will become increasingly financially secure, and this stability translates into greater confidence in your personal life. April and May are for taking social risks, mak-

AUTOMOTIVE

ing new friends and learning the nuances of a fascinating culture. June cements a deal.

Hopefully, you won’t mind the worship and adoration coming your way in August. Leo and Sagittarius people adore you.

Your lucky numbers are: 30, 5, 14, 33 and 12.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). When you realize that it would be good to control your thoughts, it’s a realization that signals a very high level of human evolution. So don’t be too hard on yourself if you aren’t able to follow through with it to your satisfaction.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Now that Venus is in your sign, you may find yourself asking more often, “What’s in it for me?” And though it’s a natural question that you’d be a fool not to ask, just be sure to follow it up with, “What’s in it for them?”

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

The moon in your sign has you feeing lucky, taking social risks and playing it loose. That’s what makes you so fun to be around. People don’t know what to expect.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

There’s an emotional volume to hit -- a sweet spot that will resonate with your audience.

It’s why you don’t feel the need to have strong opinions about everything.

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or stop by 214 1st Ave. E., Newton LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Avoid trying to make a specific outcome happen, because everyone involved in today’s scenario wants something different. Instead, be open to the natural compromise that is likely to occur with such varied input.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

There are benefits to being an unofficial member of a group.

Once they have accepted you as their own, they also trust you not to leave. So think twice before you endeavor to join.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). People generally become securityoriented because of experiences of insecurity they do not wish to repeat. With these types, trust can only be built with

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Obsession is rarely a positive state of mind, because the amount of focus that even a healthy obsession requires usually creates an imbalance. But at least obsession helps you figure out what you lack so you can actively pursue it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re usually in the mood to discover the far corners of the world; however, now you’re more in the mood to discover the far corners of your couch. You need the rest!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The friendships that keep you entertained are worth more than gold. Your favorite people

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). While familiarity doesn’t always breed contempt, it may breed blindness to the glory of all that you are. It will take an outsider to shake things up by noticing your wonderful qualities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

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Iowa State set for big year in 2015-16

NASCAR Photo Denny Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 Sport Clips Toyota, leads Matt Kenseth, driver of the No. 20 DeWalt Toyota, during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway on Sunday in Fontana, Calif. Race cautions for debris hurt Kenseth’s chances at a win and also is a big talking point among fans.

NASCAR fans upset about cautions CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There’s no way to dance around the fact cautions for debris at Auto Club Speedway twice changed the outcome of the race.

A race that at first should have been won by Matt Kenseth was derailed by a late debris caution.

Then Kurt Busch was twice denied a trip to victory lane by yellow flags. In all, there were three cautions in the final 25 laps and only once were television viewers shown the actual debris.

So a day after Brad Keselowski’s come-from-nowhere Sunday victory in California, NASCAR was again under attack for questionable officiating that altered the end of the race. It’s a decades-old issue in auto racing, where many of the calls made from race control are subjective.

For all the transparency that NASCAR is promoting, there was no explanation available Monday that would satisfy conspiracy theorists convinced the sanctioning body is able to manipulate races.

It didn’t help that Busch, who had been closing in on taking the white flag, muttered “WWE,” on his team radio when a debris caution slowed his pace. The reference was apparently likening NASCAR to scripted television

wrestling.

One had to wonder if there was any truth to Busch’s gripe.

Since Fox Sports did not show the actual debris on two of the final three cautions, no visible evidence was presented in NASCAR’s defense.

So here is where it stands now: A fanbase that by nature is largely distrusting of NASCAR now seems to believe series officials conspired to keep Busch out of victory lane.

Why would they do that?

Well, because Busch is two races removed from a NASCAR suspension for an alleged domestic assault on an ex-girlfriend.

When the decision finally came from authorities to not charge Busch with a crime, he was reinstated by NASCAR and an embarrassing legal saga closed.

But fans used social media to vent that NASCAR simply wouldn’t stand for Busch to win, and those debris cautions were used as roadblocks on Busch’s route to victory.

Not true, insisted NASCAR executive vice president Steve O’Donnell.

“That’s a preposterous allegation,” O’Donnell said. “It’s a number on a race car to NASCAR. We reinstated (Busch) and we made him eligible for

championship competition.”

Indeed, when Busch’s suspension was lifted following a threerace suspension, NASCAR granted the 2004 champion a waiver that made him eligible to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship should he qualify. A win at California on Sunday likely would have put him in the 16-driver Chase field.

Alas, he’ll have to wait another week after debris twice denied him a victory.

Matt Kenseth could certainly relate to Busch’s frustration.

That was actually his race to win.

He had enough gas to get to the finish line and was the leader in what was shaping up to be a fuel-mileage race when the first debris caution was called.

The race leader is never going to be happy about a late caution flag, and Kenseth was no exception. But his day went downhill fast. A mechanical failure on the ensuing pit stop dropped him from racing for the win to a 31st-place finish.

Like everyone else, he wondered where the debris was that had ruined his race.

“There’s a debris caution and you can’t find debris anywhere,” Kenseth said. “Of course, the leader always thinks that, I guess. “

Three Iowa wrestlers suspended after arrest IOWA CITY (AP) — Three University of Iowa wrestlers have been suspended indefinitely after being arrested last week in eastern Iowa.

Marion police lieutenant Scott Elam on Monday said an officer stopped freshmen Seth Gross, Ross Lembeck and Logan Ryan on March 18 after

the car Lembeck was driving matched the description of one suspected to be connected to a theft in the area.

Lembeck was charged with drunken driving.

Gross was given a citation for open container and for interference with official acts.

All three were charged with

possession of alcohol underage.

No theft charges were filed.

Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands says he will use the university’s student code of conduct as a guide to address the matter.

Efforts to reach the wrestlers were unsuccessful.

It wasn’t clear if they have hired attorneys.

DES MOINES (AP) — Cheer up, Iowa State fans.

This season might have ended in misery.

But next season could easily finish at the Final Four.

Iowa State (25-9), whose 2014-15 campaign concluded with a stunning 60-59 loss to 14th-seeded UAB in the NCAA Tournament, will be on the short list of teams capable of winning national championship next winter.

The Cyclones should bring back six of their top eight players — including All-Big 12 performers Georges Niang and Monte Morris and league defensive player of the year Jameel McKay — along with junior college power forward Darien Williams and promising Oregon State transfer Hallice Cooke.

Iowa State’s finale was a disaster and not entirely surprising given its unfortunate habit of letting opponents get too comfortable on offense. But the 2014-15 season should mostly be remembered as another step forward for coach Fred Hoiberg and his burgeoning program.

Iowa State got rolling in non-conference play, losing only to a Maryland team that turned out to be better than most expected and, somehow, a weak South Carolina team.

The Cyclones then finished second in the Big 12, arguably the nation’s best league, before beating Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas on backto-back-to-back nights to win the conference tournament for the sec-

ond straight year.

Earning a fourth consecutive NCAA bid was also a school record for Iowa State, which saw growth from a number of players who will play a major role next season.

Niang blossomed into a first-team allleague performer who very nearly won Big 12 Player of the Year. Morris became one of the best point guards in the country. He should join Niang on the Big 12’s preseason first team.

Even though he missed the first nine games, McKay gave Iowa State the inside presence it so desperately needed.

It was just McKay’s first season of D-I basketball. With that added experience and an offseason to improve, next season could be a breakout one for McKay, who averaged 11 points, 7.6 rebounds and 2.4 blocks a game.

Naz Long and Matt Thomas return to give ISU a solid combination at shooting guard.

Cooke averaged 8.2 points a game for the Beavers in 2013-14, and he should be better after having offseason surgery to repair cartilage tears in both of his hips.

The Cyclones will also add forward Deonte Burton, a Marquette transfer who scored 6.4 points a game this season, in December.

Iowa State will lose power forward Dustin Hogue and guard Bryce Dejean-Jones. But Williams could replicate Hogue’s numbers, and Cooke and Burton will help the Cyclones replace Dejean-Jones.

Spring

had to feel pretty good and the overall improvement in the program each year is evident.

The only team left playing on the hardwood is the Iowa women’s basketball team, which advanced to its first Sweet 16 in 19 years after a double-digit win over Miami (Fla.) on Sunday afternoon.

Don’t forget to follow me on twitter @troyhyde44. You can also follow the Newton Daily News Sports Department @NDNSports1.

Continued from Page 1B That’s why I don’t think Fred Hoiberg will bolt to the Chicago Bulls, as has been brought up in the national rumor mill.

Unfortunately, the rumors will continue.

Iowa Hawkeye fans should be happy despite a loss to Gonzaga on Sunday.

The men’s basketball team hadn’t won an NCAA Tournament game in 14 years.

Friday’s 30-point dismantling of Davidson

Contact Troy Hyde at 641-792-3121 ext. 6536 or thyde@newtondailynews.com

Baseball: Teams using computer data to help with infield shifts against batters Continued from Page 1B hitter. A ball off the end of Aoki’s bat that at first seemed headed to the corner for a tying fifth-inning double instead became an out. Madison Bumgarner found his dominating form, and the Giants held their 3-2 lead to win their third title in five seasons.

“One play, right there — one play is the difference between winning and losing the World Series, because that would have tied the game,” BIS President Ben Jedlovec said. “They might still be playing, for all we know, with how competitive that series was.”

Back in 2011, when a large portion of the sport lingered in a Data Dark Age, teams shifted 2,357 times on balls hit in play, according to BIS. Shifts nearly doubled to 4,577 the following year, rose to 8,180 in 2013 and to 13,296 last season.

BIS goes through each big

league game three times to capture everything in the company’s database: once live, then twice more the next day.

Teams can buy customized Melvin reports or the raw data to format themselves. And this winter, the company renovated its first floor to add nodes and plans to expand its analysis to the minor leagues with Triple-A games.

“There’s no such thing as a groundball hit for a left-handed pull hitter now,” Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. “It just doesn’t happen. Everybody’s over there.”

With all the moving around, fielders have to get their bearings in atypical locales. Pedro Alvarez, Evan Longoria and Josh Donaldson

were among the third basemen who had to turn double plays at second last season.

“It’s never really that unusual anymore. It’s kind of becoming a pretty big part of the game,” said Alvarez, who made the pivot for a 4-5-3 double play on Cincinnati’s Jay Bruce last April 21.

But for some managers, the statistical shakeup must be measured along with evidence collected the old-fashioned way: through one’s own eyes.

“Some of that stuff would tell you to pinch hit for Babe Ruth if you really went by strictly the numbers,” retired great Jim Leyland said. “And obviously you’d be making a fool of yourself.”

Shifts have been around since the sport’s early years.

The Hall of Fame’s Giamatti Research Center has a New York Clipper article of June 25, 1870, referring to a June 14 game between the Brooklyn Atlantics and Cincinnati

Red Stockings, that praises “the style in which the Cincinnati fielders moved about in the field, according as the different batsmen came to the bat, being a model display.”

Peter Morris’ “A Game of Inches” refers to a Louisville Courier Journal article describing how Hartford manager Bob Ferguson would move his second baseman to the left side of the infield in 1877, the National League’s second year.

Shifts for many years were used primarily for left-handed power hitters — nine of the 10 players shifted on most often last year were lefties, led by David Ortiz (505 plate appearances), Ryan Howard (453) and Chris Davis (400).

“If we can force David Ortiz to just hit the ball the other way or even try to bunt for a hit, I think that’s a win for the defense,” Lowrie said.

Sluggers reject suggestions they should bunt or try to hit

to the opposite field. Baseball culture still is of the mindset of the famous 1998 Nike advertisement with Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, titled “Chicks Pujols Dig the Long Ball.”

“My swing is my swing and I try to not change my swing,” said Albert Pujols, the most-shifted righty batter at 279 plate appearances. “They think they’re forcing you to think about the shift and actually it’s teaching you how they’re going to pitch to you. That helps me out, too, over the long run.”

Which leaves teams searching for the next shift. Because as it has for nearly a century and a half, the pendulum in baseball eventually swings the other way as batters and pitchers adjust to innovation.